The length of the wires has a lot less impact than you think on the speed of the connection. Actually, Japanese networks would seemingly generate more network speed reduction due to saturation of the same supply line. It's not like you string a service from Texas across the entire nation, and if they do, that's bad design and one of the reasons we suffer from this. Key nodes located all across America could provide the same length of wire that is located in Japan with less saturation per service and they could even charge more for the service, considering the japanese pay a pitiful 20USD for their 18MPS line and Americans are foolish and spend insane amounts of money on almost everything they own. Your statement about advertising is also rather amusing. America is probably the most hypnotized nation by advertising in existance. People in america will pay anything and conform at the flick of a switch. We're all slaves to the media and telecoms here, where the Japanese people are Partners.
American products produced in china are fake. Get your head out of your ass kid. It's our products not theirs. We produce them in our factories so we can benefit. We stick that on their to take advantage of them. We owe most of our enjoyable lives to the chinese.
This seriously is getting out of hand. All of this Anti-Chinese hate is making our nations look awefully stupid. But keeping it on topic; This has been going on for years. Watching it on the television is a digial image anyway. If you want the real thing, you should go there. Television networks have been using image enhancing computer techniques for years now. This is not a new thing. It was in good nature and in the name of safety that this was done. As well, fellow posters have already mentioned that the reporter mentioned the CG enhancements to the show.
It will remain the best opening ceremony in history, like it or not.
One of the big issues with the piracy problem is the situation the music industry got itself into in the first place. Humans are a rather stupid race when it comes to our perceived value of entertainment. 15$ is a reasonable representation of what a CD would cost you to purchase at a retailer. The CD itself is worth less than 1$, but letâ(TM)s assume we take the entire life of the CD as a music distribution medium and say that the IP is worth about 12$ of that ticket price. That leaves us with 1$ for the CD and 2$ for the box art, printing, and the plastic casing. 12$ for a recording of a performance is, well, completely outlandish. That is way too much money for what we get. The music industry should have NEVER been what it is today. It is not a host of talent filled individuals becoming famous for their talents; rather, it is marketing companies providing the population with what they will pay most for. The music industry is a heartless machine that sucks individuality out of our lives and replaces it with the same mundane crap day in and day out until we get bored. Lets be reasonable here, does anyone actually believe that a professional musician deserves more respect and money than say, any given engineer? Of course he/she does not. Musicians should only make about the same amount of money any other person with a 4 year education (yes, you should be required to attend a musical institution before you can be classified as a professional musician). Obviously, some people will bypass this and still make the same amount of money, just like inventors who can market their ideas without degrees. There are outliers, just like there are in every other professional field, but the general mass of professional musicians is streamlined into a bell curve of yearly earnings. The corporate industry behind the labels makes more of course, but just like respectable engineering firms they are not all filthy rich. Suddenly, the perceived value of the IP changes from being a penny from a heartless millionaire to the earnings of a respectable professional. Society would view it entirely differently. A compact disk featuring the IP of a band should be somewhere around 5-6$. With the option of purchasing individual tracks online for a reasonable price (10-12cents). If you feel that musical talent is hard to come by, and that they really do deserve that kind of money and respect, sit down and try to learn and instrument. If you take courses, learn the history and how music works, I assure you it is fairly easy. Anyone is capable of learning how to play an instrument. There is NOTHING special about being a good guitar player, or having a singing voice. It is a skill that is developed by rigor and training. Just like any other educational and marketable skill. If you make the music industry seem human, and introduce some hard work into the filthy money they make people will change their opinions on pirating. I know itâ(TM)s a sad place for indie music developers because they are exactly what the music industry should be, but there is nothing you can do about the situation. Youâ(TM)re a grain of sand in a beach full of boulders, I feel for you, but thatâ(TM)s just the way it is. The dream of being rich should have never, ever been there, you do not deserve it. The fact that society actually let people who produce the same crap over and over again have a higher income than those who spend years in university to save our lives and better our civilization makes me sick.
I feel I should release a new iPhone app called the "I Am Gullable" app. Comes free with every purchase of an iPhone.
Scratch that, I'll make you pay for it. Seems iPhone users are into that sort of thing.
There is a marked difference between contacting a party on a pay per month internet fee as opposed to a pay per connection cell phone. Also, it should be noted that, in the case of the windows pc, that a competent end-user will result in this being avoided all together. This is not the same as your case at all. In fact, it looks like Apple using the "malicious app remover" as a cover up to remove "malicious software" as they see fit. I wonder if the service agreement states they can do this and charge you for the connection fee. Are they going to reimburse people that purchase software that is later deemed "malicious"? After spending 512$... One should be able to put whatever the hell one pleases on it. They should offer it as a free app that can be installed if the end-user wishes to like windows does.
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The length of the wires has a lot less impact than you think on the speed of the connection. Actually, Japanese networks would seemingly generate more network speed reduction due to saturation of the same supply line. It's not like you string a service from Texas across the entire nation, and if they do, that's bad design and one of the reasons we suffer from this. Key nodes located all across America could provide the same length of wire that is located in Japan with less saturation per service and they could even charge more for the service, considering the japanese pay a pitiful 20USD for their 18MPS line and Americans are foolish and spend insane amounts of money on almost everything they own. Your statement about advertising is also rather amusing. America is probably the most hypnotized nation by advertising in existance. People in america will pay anything and conform at the flick of a switch. We're all slaves to the media and telecoms here, where the Japanese people are Partners.
American products produced in china are fake. Get your head out of your ass kid. It's our products not theirs. We produce them in our factories so we can benefit. We stick that on their to take advantage of them. We owe most of our enjoyable lives to the chinese.
This seriously is getting out of hand. All of this Anti-Chinese hate is making our nations look awefully stupid. But keeping it on topic; This has been going on for years. Watching it on the television is a digial image anyway. If you want the real thing, you should go there. Television networks have been using image enhancing computer techniques for years now. This is not a new thing. It was in good nature and in the name of safety that this was done. As well, fellow posters have already mentioned that the reporter mentioned the CG enhancements to the show. It will remain the best opening ceremony in history, like it or not.
One of the big issues with the piracy problem is the situation the music industry got itself into in the first place. Humans are a rather stupid race when it comes to our perceived value of entertainment. 15$ is a reasonable representation of what a CD would cost you to purchase at a retailer. The CD itself is worth less than 1$, but letâ(TM)s assume we take the entire life of the CD as a music distribution medium and say that the IP is worth about 12$ of that ticket price. That leaves us with 1$ for the CD and 2$ for the box art, printing, and the plastic casing. 12$ for a recording of a performance is, well, completely outlandish. That is way too much money for what we get. The music industry should have NEVER been what it is today. It is not a host of talent filled individuals becoming famous for their talents; rather, it is marketing companies providing the population with what they will pay most for. The music industry is a heartless machine that sucks individuality out of our lives and replaces it with the same mundane crap day in and day out until we get bored. Lets be reasonable here, does anyone actually believe that a professional musician deserves more respect and money than say, any given engineer? Of course he/she does not. Musicians should only make about the same amount of money any other person with a 4 year education (yes, you should be required to attend a musical institution before you can be classified as a professional musician). Obviously, some people will bypass this and still make the same amount of money, just like inventors who can market their ideas without degrees. There are outliers, just like there are in every other professional field, but the general mass of professional musicians is streamlined into a bell curve of yearly earnings. The corporate industry behind the labels makes more of course, but just like respectable engineering firms they are not all filthy rich. Suddenly, the perceived value of the IP changes from being a penny from a heartless millionaire to the earnings of a respectable professional. Society would view it entirely differently. A compact disk featuring the IP of a band should be somewhere around 5-6$. With the option of purchasing individual tracks online for a reasonable price (10-12cents). If you feel that musical talent is hard to come by, and that they really do deserve that kind of money and respect, sit down and try to learn and instrument. If you take courses, learn the history and how music works, I assure you it is fairly easy. Anyone is capable of learning how to play an instrument. There is NOTHING special about being a good guitar player, or having a singing voice. It is a skill that is developed by rigor and training. Just like any other educational and marketable skill. If you make the music industry seem human, and introduce some hard work into the filthy money they make people will change their opinions on pirating. I know itâ(TM)s a sad place for indie music developers because they are exactly what the music industry should be, but there is nothing you can do about the situation. Youâ(TM)re a grain of sand in a beach full of boulders, I feel for you, but thatâ(TM)s just the way it is. The dream of being rich should have never, ever been there, you do not deserve it. The fact that society actually let people who produce the same crap over and over again have a higher income than those who spend years in university to save our lives and better our civilization makes me sick.
I feel I should release a new iPhone app called the "I Am Gullable" app. Comes free with every purchase of an iPhone. Scratch that, I'll make you pay for it. Seems iPhone users are into that sort of thing.
There is a marked difference between contacting a party on a pay per month internet fee as opposed to a pay per connection cell phone. Also, it should be noted that, in the case of the windows pc, that a competent end-user will result in this being avoided all together. This is not the same as your case at all. In fact, it looks like Apple using the "malicious app remover" as a cover up to remove "malicious software" as they see fit. I wonder if the service agreement states they can do this and charge you for the connection fee. Are they going to reimburse people that purchase software that is later deemed "malicious"? After spending 512$... One should be able to put whatever the hell one pleases on it. They should offer it as a free app that can be installed if the end-user wishes to like windows does.